Early Childhood Education - Standard Font?

This could actually be a quite subtle, and fascinating, question. I doubt there is any standard specification, but nonetheless many publishers of such material may have converged on one (or a few) common fonts. Certainly not Magnificat or Ye Olde Gothic blackletter German, nor Comic Sanserif, but then what? If you have an eye for fonts, you might pick up a few primary-grade texts and see what they use. My Dick-and- Jane days are so long ago I don't remember (and wouldn't have noticed in the first place). But for short passages, a display font such as Helvetica looks good, with basic letterforms that kids can "get," and can write. (Avoids the two-loop "g" with the quail topknot, for which you have to think pretty hard to write.)

For now I won't go into serif/sanserif or monospace/proportional fonts, or kerning, but there is a surprising amount of technique/artistry that can go into a seemingly simple thing as making letters. For a tour de force on this, see Douglas R. Hofstadter's Metamagical Themas. (And if you like music, see the essay therein on Chopin. !!!)

New Century School book is my nominee. It is reminiscent of the primers I learned with. I would avoid helvetica and its ilk as it lacks the subtle clues of the school book face- it is too contrasty. milo